BEIRUT – Lebanon’s leading Sunni Muslim politician, Saad al-Hariri, re-emerged as a candidate for prime minister on Sunday when businessman Samir Khatib withdrew his candidacy to lead a government that must tackle an acute economic crisis.Hariri quit a…
Maronite Patriarch, Cardinal Bechara Boutros Rahi, likened the people’s revolution to “torrential rain,” calling on the political class to not disdain the civil movements and the youth revolution that wants to build a new civilized Lebanon.”There is no…
Beirut’s Greek Orthodox Metropolitan Archbishop Elias Aoudeh presided over a memorial Mass service at St. George’s Cathedral in downtown Beirut this morning, marking the fourteenth commemoration of the martyrdom of Gibran Tueni and his two companions.I…
Grand Mufti of the Lebanese Republic, Sheikh Abdel-Latif Derian, met today at Dar El-Fatwa with the candidate for premiership, Samir al-Khatib, who disclosed on emerging that the Mufti informed him of his support for Caretaker PM Saad Hariri to head th…
Former PM Fouad Siniora welcomed at his office in Bliss the Russian Ambassador to Lebanon, Alexander Zasypkin. The meeting focused on the current situation in Lebanon in all its aspects, as well as bilateral relations.Source: National News Agency
Caretaker Minister of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, Gebran Bassil, arrived in Rome on Friday to partake in the inauguration of the fifth edition of the Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue. Bassil kicked off his Rome visit by meeting with Italian counterpart, …
The Israeli enemy army on Friday installed a giant iron gate on the wall adjacent to the technical fence in Adaisseh, NNA reporter said. It is noteworthy that this type of gates has been installed for the first time on the concrete wall along the borde…
Caretaker Minister of Interior of Municipalities, Raya Al-Hassan, on Thursday welcomed a UNICEF delegation headed by its representative in Lebanon, Yukie Mokuo, who visited her with an accompanying delegation. The meeting was an occasion to discuss pro…
MP Nouhad Machnouk visited on Thursday Grand Mufti of the Republic, Sheikh Abdel Latif Derian, with whom he discussed the general situation and an array of current affairs. On emerging, MP Machnouk dwelt on the issue of what he termed as surpassing the…
A group of protesters on Wednesday staged a sit-in in front of Solidere in Downtown Beirut, demanding “the restoration of the people’s usurped rights from Solidere.” “Solidere is the biggest scandal in the history of Lebanon and the epicenter of corrup…
